. Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was
responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze
River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June 11

Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water
contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has
fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. July 10, 2005

Those pictures were immensely disturbing and emotionally draining. It's shameful beyond words that there are people who are forced to live in such
conditions. I'll count my blessings that I'm a US Citizen.

I hope all those "get the government off the back of industry" types see this and understand the need for government regulation of corporations. Of
course, they will probably dismiss it as an aberration, despite the fact that it happens every single time and in every single place corporations go
to escape "unnecessarily onerous" regulations that diminish their profits.

Every corporate CEO and their families should be made to swim in those rivers and ponds for a few hours.

Extremely disturbing pictures, thanks for sharing them with us... Some of them remind me of River Rouge just outside of Detroit back in the early
70's. When are people going to finally wake up and realize what they are doing to the planet??? If we don't, extinction is inevitable...

STAR AND FLAG! Excellent find! This is how they can make the products at such a low price. It costs money to operate an industry without RUINING
the environment! The Chinese people will someday have enough and rise up against their leadership.

That's absolutely disgusting. Maybe another reason China wasn't so interested in the whole global warming thing. Can you imagine what it would cost
to not only fix the damage, which would take years, not to mention what it would cost the companies involved to change their way of disposing of
waste?

This article should be required reading for every American. Every time we buy goods from China this is further encouraged.
Not so very long ago many parts of the US looked like those pictures. By the time we figured out how to produce goods without so much pollution they
moved the factories overseas.
This is a cycle that must somehow be broken. There is only a limited amount of space to live and at it;s current rate most of China will be
unihabitable by humans within 50 years. Where will their people live then?
These are all factors that will play into the history of our planet in the future. By making lands uninhabitable we virtually assure the continuance
of war. The very survival of our species is at issue here. I don'f feel our current nation/state model is capable of addressing of these issues and
frankly I wouldn't trust a New World Order to fix it either.
Bottom line is how much does our "stuff" and convenience matter to us? Our ancestors have much to teach us about these things if we bother to
listen.

Next time you screw in one of those horrible Chinese spiral compact fluorescent light bulbs please think of these pictures.
That's how "GREEN" you are being by using those things.
You're really not saving the planet. You're helping to destroy it. At best you're helping out the local utility company who will be peak metering
you soon anyway to make their profits.

This is what George Bush would like to have done in this country! If there is a hell, it is reserved for folks who have no appreciation for the health
of the planet. Anyhow, this is Western influenced progress for you.

reminds me of Victorian Britain during the Industrial revolution, which is quite an apt analogy as China is undergoing an Industrial revolution of
it's own.

This is a shining example of why industry needs to be regulated. We in the west have learnt, but now all our industry has shifted to these parts of
the world instead, poisoning them and depriving us of the ability to make our own goods.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Corrupt governments doing business as usual, at the expense of the people.

Our corporate butchers, I mean businesses, get around our anti pollution laws by sending our poisonous industrial waste overseas. The poor
countries' governments allow this at the expense of the citizens.

I read that one of the reasons the Somali pirates started their actions was due to illegal fishing and dumping of industrial, medical and even
suspected nuclear waste off their coasts.

But the governments of the countries that are involved in illegal actions control the media and make it seem like the Somalians are in the wrong!

I feel so, so sorry for those poor children. I have just come from another post with photo's from Gaza and I just feel I can't go on at the moment!
What the hell is happening to this world. I have 2 daughters aged 2 and 5 and for the life of me can't understand why these poor children all over
the world have to suffer due to money. I really wish there was a god who I could ask these question too and get something done but of course nothing
will happen to lessen the suffering on these children. Oh.. maybe the events in 2012 may solve this problem and all the little children will have no
suffering.. then maybe not!

This brings the seriousness of these problems to a higher level and bring all the other, complete guff posts right down.

You know what? These people posting about I know this but can't tell you should get a good look at these 2 posts showing the suffering of little
children and get back to reality. Unless we're all just spirits creating these illusions because we need to have them!!

I don't know how to finish this post as I'm raging inside and if I hear another crock of s**t from someone posting how none of this is real, well,
they will hear from me!

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